All 5 Uses of
mortal
in
The Silver Chair
- Those eels will take a mortal long time to cook, and either of you might faint with hunger before they're done.
Chpt 5 *mortal = extremely
- who has suffered almost more than any mortal can bear.
Chpt 11 *mortal = human (especially merely human) or subject to death
- I am the more thankful to her for all her infinite bounty to such a poor mortal wretch as I. For you must know, Sirs, I am a man under most strange afflictions, and none but the Queen's grace would have had patience with me.†
Chpt 10
- I'm your mortal enemy else.†
Chpt 11
- For this is a marvellous adventure, and it may be no mortal man has ever looked into Bism before or will ever have the chance again.†
Chpt 14
Definitions:
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(1)
(mortal as in: mortal body) human (especially merely human); or subject to death
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(2)
(mortal as in: a mortal wound) causing death
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(3)
(mortal as in: felt mortal agony) extreme or intense
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)